Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 14
Liberalism and Empire: A Denied Link......Page 17
The Circumstances of Thought in an Unfamiliar Context......Page 21
The Cosmopolitanism of Reason and the Cosmopolitanism of Sentiments......Page 30
The Fact of Strangeness and the Norms of Liberalism......Page 36
Liberal Judgments......Page 41
The Sentiments of Understanding......Page 49
2. Strategies: Liberal Conventions and Imperial Conclusions......Page 59
Liberal Universalism......Page 64
Colonial Exclusions......Page 77
3. Progress, Civilization, and Consent......Page 90
Universal Histories......Page 95
James Mill and the History of British India......Page 100
John Stuart Mill: Progress and Consent......Page 110
The Problematic of Progress: History, Time, and Politics......Page 119
Conclusion......Page 124
4. Liberalism, Empire, and Territory......Page 128
Nature, a Worthless Inheritance......Page 136
Territoriality and Political Society......Page 145
Conclusion......Page 157
5. Edmund Burke on the Perils of the Empire......Page 166
Theoretical Underpinnings......Page 172
The Background of Involvement......Page 179
Braided Concerns: Britain and India......Page 183
Conclusion......Page 200
Conclusion: Experience and Unfamiliarity......Page 203
Discontinuity and Contradiction......Page 205
Experience......Page 214
The Soothsaying of the Empire......Page 223
The Politics of Certainty and the Ethics of Open Conversations......Page 225
Index......Page 232